As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, May 16, 2014

#61 The Carnival Is Over -- The Seekers (1965)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-Y68FNF9Y

Like “Substitute”, I heard this one for the first time on WKBO’s Sunday night British Invasion show – not surprising, since it hit #1 in the UK but missed the Top 100 entirely over here. It’s a slow, stately ballad, unlike such Seekers hits as “I’ll Never Find Another You” and “Georgy Girl”, but hauntingly beautiful. There’s a great blog post in The Guardian talking about the impact of the song in the group’s native Australia.
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